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SwordLord

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Thank you Mod Pips, Mod Balance and everyone at Jagex for keeping us updated in regards to yesterday's eye-opening post.

Without looking at this in a negative way, I think if this transaction/negotiation goes through, RuneScape and Jagex will both have a very beneficial impact. This could potentially bring in scapers from the Eastern side of the world and join our community with the biggest and warmest Aloha :)

Our beloved game since our early childhood... and adulthood ;) , RuneScape still has an amazing community along with nearly 75,000 active players online right now! And great job everyone at Jagex!

I have faith in Jagex to make the right decision for our future

17-Mar-2016 01:47:50

Ownage Omg

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Will this affect the levels of (or add) MTX in the games?

Simply put, no. We don’t plan for any significant changes on this front. This bit concerns me a lot. You don't plan on it? How about a guarantee that it won't happen especially for OSRS.
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If the talks result in an acquisition, we expect to continue with this community driven approach in everything we do. This quote just displays a large amount of uncertainty as to what's going to happen.

All of your responses have basically been what you "expect" rather than what is *going to happen*
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17-Mar-2016 01:52:27 - Last edited on 17-Mar-2016 01:54:16 by Ownage Omg

Amethystine
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Can Jagex be sure this company is reputable? We all know human rights violations, drug and human trafficking are rampant in Asian countries.

Can you guarantee no shady dealings like that exist from that company, and vouch for them if and when it becomes apparent they lied to acquire a backdoor dealing?

Sorry; I'm not sorry I'm wary of anything to do with a country that slaughters pets and doesn't care about people.

17-Mar-2016 01:59:39 - Last edited on 17-Mar-2016 02:00:31 by Amethystine

Pussum
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This is clearly about money not the players, otherwise offers would be rejected. The shareholders don't care that they are just selling more of the UK's industry to China, and that everything will have a big impact, more exporting profits of British success away from where such a thriving business is needed. Why not consider a partnership or something instead of just going for money and hoping things will stay the same. No mod knows really nothing will happen, they say it themselves negotiations are early, so really they haven't got a clue what will happen, they are giving false reassurance to the community. Jmods are welcome to reply to me on this, in my inbox, email or here if I get a notification.

17-Mar-2016 02:03:01

Eva Element

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Will this affect the levels of (or add) MTX in the games?

Simply put, no. We don’t plan for any significant changes on this front. This bit concerns me a lot. You don't plan on it? How about a guarantee that it won't happen especially for OSRS.
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If the talks result in an acquisition, we expect to continue with this community driven approach in everything we do. This quote just displays a large amount of uncertainty as to what's going to happen.

All of your responses have basically been what you "expect" rather than what is *going to happen*

They can't guarantee anything at this point. They have the same amount of info as we do. I'm a big entropy fan.

All subtlety and nuance of a napalm enema

17-Mar-2016 02:09:22

Ownage Omg

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Do you really believe that? I think they're just saying things in order to keep us calm since everyone basically freaked out upon hearing about it.

This whole update is meaningless simply because anything can change and we can't turn around and hold this against them as they'll pull out the "nothing was confirmed" card.
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17-Mar-2016 02:10:20 - Last edited on 17-Mar-2016 02:11:25 by Ownage Omg

HELLAS

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If this deal goes through, and that's a big IF, i cannot see the game staying as it is. And in my opinion, on the balance of probabilities it will probably be for the worse.

There is a lot of anger being thrown around. I'm sure no player is happy with a takeover from a seemingly dodgy Chinese iron ore mining company.

As much as it pains me to say this, no matter the outcome, we can't blame Jagex. The shareholders of Jagex are entitled to take the money and run if they see fit. All this talk of community is immaterial, except maybe to the goodwill value of the company.

We won't know the full story until a deal is made or not. Jagex is a private company and although they are 'updating' us we really have no idea what is happening behind the curtain. Even if they wanted to share everything, there are obvious non-disclosure caveats during such negotiations.

In terms of the outcome, if the new Chinese overlords come up with the 'reported' deposit amount end of April it is anyone's guess what will happen.

The fairy tale result of a take-over in my mind would be to keep Jagex on a development contract (even if this is truly a skeletal team), keep headquarters in the UK at least for a couple of years, build new development teams in the Asia-Pacific region to push into these markets and naturally reduce overheads.

I personally prefer the deal doesn't materialise and something tells me there is a good chance they will not come up with the 'reported' 100 mil deposit amount. Provided leaked info is accurate.

But hey, all good things come to an end at some point! The memories shared through this game over the years are invaluable to us - hard to put a figure to that on a balance sheet. (wait they have - 300mil) :(

17-Mar-2016 02:21:31

MapleStory
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Does this mean we will get servers in China, and that we can play together with the Chinese players on the same servers? =]

I hope I can find a new friend to teach me some Chinese =D

17-Mar-2016 02:23:08 - Last edited on 17-Mar-2016 02:24:01 by MapleStory

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